Plane crash Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 claimed the lives of 26 people, with survivor E. Philip Bradley saying: 'I had a vision of Christ standing there, he was standing about three to four feet off the ground' View 3 Images Plane passengers had just been 'laughing merrily' in their seats before tragedy hit

It was reasonably routine at first - until it became a nightmare no one could wake from. On the evening of October 30, 1959, Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, a Douglas DC-3 bound for Roanoke with stops in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, departed Washington, DC, at 7.49pm, about 20 minutes late. ‌

On board were 27 people (24 passengers and three crew) and the skies were cool and low-clouded. According to survivor E. Philip Bradley – the only person to walk away from what came

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